This year, Atlas Buildings Hub published 21 original stories in our bi-weekly digests. Subject matter ranged from building codes to net metering to the electrification workforce. Here, we highlight our five post popular digests [...]
Join us on Tuesday, December 17 at 1:30 PM EST as we sit down with Rose Stephens-Booker, Managing Director of Programs and Partnerships at the Building Decarbonization Coalition, and Tony Sirna, Buildings Senior Policy Lead at Evergreen Action, to discuss the key federal and state building decarbonization policy moments of 2024.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed in August 2022, provided nearly $90 billion to 27 programs for residential, commercial, and public building decarbonization and electrification. Two years later, the federal government is getting the [...]
Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), Public Service Commissions (PSCs), Consolidated Commission, or Corporate Commissions — no matter what you call them, each state (and Guam) has a public commission governing how utilities in the state [...]
Note: This digest is not intended to be an exhaustive list of new building decarbonization solutions. These are illustrative examples of some exciting new solutions in the market. Atlas Buildings Hub is not sponsored [...]
Join us on Tuesday, November 12 at 14 PM EST as Policy Analyst Stephen Naimoli sits down with Andy Johnson, Executive Director of Clean Energy Districts of Iowa. The pair will discuss progress and developments in the inception and multiplication of clean energy districts nationwide.
The past couple of years have seen an increase in government-supported initiatives to increase heat pump installations nationwide. In September 2023, a coalition of 25 state governors announced their intention to deploy 20 million [...]
The building decarbonization world overlaps with the industrial decarbonization universe when it comes to decarbonizing building materials. According to a September 2023 report published by RMI and the U.S. Green Building Council, embodied carbon [...]
Join us Thursday, October 10 at 1pm EST for a discussion on how New Mexico's Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department rolled out the state's federal Home Energy Rebates.
As of the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), 66 percent of American households primarily relied on a fossil fuel to heat their home. Over half of American households heat their homes with piped [...]
